The Ohio National Guard started deploying 2,300 soldiers and airmen throughout the state in response to the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this month. The team assigned to Williams County arrived Monday morning. Capt. Matthew Clairday, a communications officer from the 180th Fighter Wing in Toledo, brought six soldiers and four airman …
Read More »Krill Is Now The Captain
Matt Krill…a sergeant with Edgerton Police for nearly 10 years…is promoted to captain. Krill, who is also a social studies teacher at Edgerton Local Schools, joined the department in 2000 and received a promotion to sergeant in 2012. He thanked the village for the promotion and allowing him to serve.
Read More »Tax Renewal Approaches
The City of Bryan will seek a renewal of its 1/2% income tax in the May 3 primary election ballot. The tax has been in place for 38 years and renewed every nine and a half years. It pays for debt service and improvements to the city’s streets and sewer …
Read More »At The Wire
A group…seeking to legalize marijuana possession and cultivation in Ohio…submits nearly 30,000 additional signatures to state officials…in an effort to put the issue in front of lawmakers this year. Earlier this month, it looked like the group might not get the nearly 133,000 signatures needed before the deadline…this…after the Ohio …
Read More »FirstEnergy…Still In Trouble
FirstEnergy Corp. collected nearly $460 million from its customers to pay for modernizing its electric grid, but an outside audit…ordered by state regulators…could not determine how the money was spent…all this…according to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. The audit found FirstEnergy put the money into a general fund and …
Read More »Crash In DKC
In DeKalb County…officials tell reporters…an Ohio man was speeding…and drinking…when he drove off State Road 8…crashing into a tree. The SUV is found…facing south…resting on the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver, 25-year-old Austin Ziehr of Edgerton…is pinned inside the vehicle. Crash investigators think the SUV drifted off the …
Read More »Chips. Chips. Chips.
GOP members of the Ohio congressional delegation on Friday…asked House and Senate leaders to fully fund a law…meant to address the global shortage of semiconductor chips, used in phones, cars and video games. The request comes as multiple media reports say Santa Clara, California-based Intel…intends to build a massive computer-chip …
Read More »DeWine Awaits Primary
Gov., DeWine says he has no regrets about his response to the coronavirus pandemic…even if Republican voters who thought he went too far are angry enough to vote him out in the upcoming May primary. DeWine is running for a second four-year term, which he has said will mark the …
Read More »An Appeal Claim…Clears Hurdle
The claims of juror bias by an Ohio death row inmate…who killed two girls in a robbery…can be further explored, a divided federal appeals court rules. At issue before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is an appeal by Jeronique Cunningham, sentenced to die for the killing of two …
Read More »Flames Handled
Bryan crews take on two fires within minutes of each other. The first?…at the Woodland Estates Mobile Home Park on County Road 15.75. A dumpster is on fire. That blaze is quickly handled. Then…another call comes in. This time at a County Road H.50 location. Other fire teams from the …
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